We knew it was coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye. Nintendo shut down the online servers for both the Wii U and 3DS today. This means the end of online multiplayer gaming for ...

When the Wii U was discontinued, there was no fanfare or memorial for the end of Nintendo’s console. While it certainly has its defenders — I am one of them! — the console underperformed in comparison ...

Nintendo will soon be ceasing all sales through its eShop service for 3DS and Wii U consoles. Users will no longer be able to purchase new games digitally, although existing owners of those games will ...

After closing its 3DS and Wii U eShops earlier this year, Nintendo will shut down online services for those consoles in "early April 2024," it announced. That will put a halt to multiplayer features, ...

It’s the end of an era for Nintendo fans: Online play for 3DS and Wii U games has officially ended. I adore the 3DS and Wii U libraries, and even though Nintendo has already brought so many great ...

Nintendo has just kicked off its Switch 2 era of gaming, but the company is also saying goodbye to its 3DS line of handheld gaming consoles. While Nintendo continued supporting the 3DS and its various ...

Nintendo has made some bold, weird choices with its hardware designs. But none were so bold and weird as 1995’s Virtual Boy, a “woefully premature commercial curio,” as one Ars writer put it, that ...

Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who covered consumer tech, including the latest smartphones, wearables and emerging trends like assistive robotics. She won two Gold Telly Awards for her video ...

Steve Hannley is a Publisher from the USA and has been around the industry for over two decades and has been involved with Hardcore Gamer for more than fifteen years. In that time, he’s worked with ...

When it comes to unique gimmicks, the Nintendo 3DS is mainly remembered for the wow factor of its glasses-free stereoscopic 3D effects (which Nintendo would eventually abandon with the introduction of ...